In recent case which is very disturbing, on June 5, 2007, A penal court sentenced Mr. Makwan Mouloudzadeh, to death for raping three boys in 2000, even though all of his accusers had recanted their statements and he had repudiated his confession as being coerced by the police (which is police in Iran is popular to get confession by torture and unfortunately courts accept those confessions regardless of in what situation you confessed. Trust me, they torture you to the point that you will confess to everything they ask for). Mouloudzadeh, now aged 20, was convicted as a juvenile offender since the crimes were allegedly committed when he was age 13.
Iranian laws concerning “crimes of chastity” such as rape divest the prosecutor of some of his traditional prerogatives. These laws transfer authority to the penal court to question the accusers and arrange for examination by a physician, and to decide whether to bring the case to trial. Acting in defiance of these laws, the office of the public prosecutor in Kermanshah (A city in Iran) conducted these investigations and decided to take the case to trial.
During the trial, all of Mouloudzadeh’s accusers recanted their accusations against him and Mouloudzadeh himself testified that any confessions that he had made to the police about the alleged crimes were coerced and false. The judge did not accept their testimonies and sentenced Mouloudzadeh to death.
Finally they hanged this young man for crimes that even though all of his accusers had recanted their testimony.
It seems this story never ends here in Iran because no matter what we do, protest, campaign and write letters; clergies in Islamic non-Republic of Iran won't change their mind and at the end of the day they execute juveniles and even innocent people. As long as clergies are responsible in Judiciary system and they are judge even without having appropriate knowledge, fundamental injustice will grow in Iran.
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